The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year because of the steady rains for two months and now is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season. Chuck Bennett/Daily Breeze/SCNG

The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year because of the steady rains for two months and now is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season. Chuck Bennett/Daily Breeze/SCNG

The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year because of the steady rains for two months and now is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season. Chuck Bennett/Daily Breeze/SCNG

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The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year because of the steady rains for two months and now is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season. Chuck Bennett/Daily Breeze/SCNG

The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year because of the steady rains for two months and now is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season. Chuck Bennett/Daily Breeze/SCNG

FILE – In this Jan. 13, 2016, file photo, a wheelbarrow sits at the site of the former Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif., where a stadium for NFL football Los Angeles Rams is being built. The opening date for the $2.6 billion football stadium under construction in Inglewood, Calif., has been pushed back one year to 2020. The Rams are financing the stadium to be shared with the Los Angeles Chargers. The delay is blamed on heavy rains that have hindered the excavation process in recent months. At right is the Hollywood Park Casino. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) ORG XMIT: LA403

FILE – In this Jan. 13, 2016, file photo, the Hollywood Park Casino stands on the grounds of the former Hollywood Park horse-racing track in Inglewood, Calif. The opening date for the $2.6 billion football stadium under construction in Inglewood, Calif., has been pushed back one year to 2020. The Los Angeles Rams are financing the stadium to be shared with the Los Angeles Chargers. The delay is blamed on heavy rains that have hindered the excavation process in recent months. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) ORG XMIT: LA404

FILE – This Feb. 3, 2016, file photo shows heavy machinery adjacent to the proposed NFL team Los Angeles Rams stadium complex site at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif. The opening date for the $2.6 billion football stadium under construction in Inglewood, Calif., has been pushed back one year to 2020. The Los Angeles Rams are financing the stadium to be shared with the Los Angeles Chargers. The delay is blamed on heavy rains that have hindered the excavation process in recent months. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) ORG XMIT: LA405

And the record-breaking rainfall that besieged Los Angeles from November to February means the Rams and Chargers will have to wait at least one more year before they can mutually christen the $2.6 billion stadium in Inglewood they’ll eventually call home.

In the whole scheme of things, it’s more of a frustrating annoyance rather than fist-clenching letdown.

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Yes, the two teams will take financial hits having to play one more year at their temporary digs rather than their luxurious new home. Which means revenue streams they were counting on tapping into won’t be available, even while they begin payments on the $500 million relocation fees they owe to fellow owners.

And certainly Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who is footing the bill for the stadium, will incur additional costs with the timeline getting pushed back a year. But as one of the most successful and wealthiest land developers in the world, that’s pretty much a daily risk for Kroenke.

As for Los Angeles, there is a chance we will will miss out on the 2021 Super Bowl the NFL promised us last May. By rule, a new stadium has to be up and running at least two seasons to be eligible to host a Super Bowl, and the new timeline obviously eliminates that possibility.

The Rams are expected to ask for a waiver on the rule, and logic suggests owners will grant it provided everything goes smoothly from here on out.

But there’s also a chance they won’t.

Either way, you can expect Los Angeles to be a mainstay in the Super Bowl rotation. If it’s not 2021, you can bet 2022 will be in play.

In other words, the delay is a temporary irritation when weighed against the bigger objective.

“And that’s making sure we do this right,” Rams vice president Kevin Demoff said. “The objective is to deliver a world-class venue. Not reach a timeline if it means trying to rush things.”

The world-class venue is what the Rams pledged two years ago upon setting their sights on returning home after spending the previous 21 years in St. Louis. And a world-class venue we will still get. Just a little later than expected.

It’s a promise the Rams didn’t just make to Los Angeles, but also their NFL colleagues eager to get back to L.A. after the two-decade lapse. Kroenke sold fellow owners on the multi-purpose mega-development he envisioned across 300 acres in Inglewood – an NFL Disneyland, if you will – and that vision helped secure the necessary votes for relocation.

At the time, the Rams were involved in a three-team race to Los Angeles with their Inglewood stadium pitted against the joint stadium bid by the Chargers and Oakland Raiders in nearby Carson. Kroenke’s grand dream, and his financial wherewithal to make it happen, were the deciding factors in the Rams winning the day. As everyone congratulated each other on that fateful night in Houston – with Chargers owner Dean Spanos contemplating and ultimately pulling the trigger on his option to join the Rams in L.A. – the grand opening was slated for the 2019 season.

It’s California, everyone agreed. You can build year-round. No worries.

But who could have figured Mother Nature unleashing the kind of rain it did between the tail end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017?

Developers actually wrote 30 days of rain delays into the original 2019 timeline. And even that number seemed high to locals accustomed to mostly year-round sunshine.

So imagine everyone’s surprise when the first few months of construction were marred by nearly 60 days of weather delays.

The rain was great for the environment, but not so good when you’re trying to build a football stadium that, in order to avoid radar issues with airplanes flying into nearby LAX, needed to be built into a 90-foot hole dug into the earth.

“You have to go all the way down before you can come up,” said Dale Koger the Legends Project Development vice president overseeing the Inglewood project.

And while construction began last November with more than 100 workers digging the required hole and moving more than six million cubic yards of dirt across the construction site, the ensuing rain halted any other work and resulted in nearly two full months of delays.

Not to mention routinely transformed the hole they were digging into Lake Michigan West. That water, incidentally, had to be dealt with. And that took time.

Theoretically, the Rams and their partners could have forged ahead trying to reach the 2019 target date. And maybe even met it.

Instead, they opted for prudence over pride.

The delay not only eliminates any risk resulting in ramping up the pace to meet the original deadline, it also creates built-in accommodations for any potential future delays.

By deciding to apply the brakes now, they’ve set a realistic finish line they should easily cross rather than sprinting to a target they might ultimately fall short of.

“The worst thing you can do is get a year and a half in and then say, ‘we can’t get there’ and then tell people it’s because we lost three months to rain in 2017,” Demoff said. “Their response would have been: ‘Why didn’t you just announce the delay then?’”

That means the Rams spending one extra year at the Coliseum – a potential they accounted for by adding a 2019 option year to their original agreement with the Coliseum – and the Chargers playing one more year at StubHub Center in Carson.

Not ideal, obviously.

But much better than getting into 2018 and then taking a big, worrisome gulp knowing you might not be finished in time for kick off the following fall.

There’s some potential upside, too.

If you’re the Chargers, you get one more year acclimating and marketing yourself in Los Angeles – while playing in a 30,000-seat venue – before making the move to the much larger stadium in Inglewood.

That means one more year to entice local fans onto your bandwagon and season-ticket customer list for the new stadium.

“Our focus is always on the fan experience,” said A.G. Spanos, the Chargers’ president of business operations. “Our future home will be the best stadium in the NFL and deliver a transformational experience for Chargers fans. If getting it right means pushing back the completion date, then I think the extra year is well worth it.

“Construction is our family business, so we understand the challenges that come with a project of this magnitude. At StubHub Center we are creating an unparalleled environment for watching NFL football, and considering that no other venue in the league brings you closer to the action, we think Chargers fans will enjoy our three years in Carson.”

As for the Rams, if new coach Sean McVay and young quarterback Jared Goff use the longer runway to soar into the new stadium in 2020, will Rams fans really care if take off was delayed by a year?

Is it ideal? No. But in the grand scheme of things, a minor bump in the road.